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District officials admitted last year that school staff had mistreated the girl and agreed to pay her family a $2 million settlement after initially defending how it handled the bullying allegations.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Twin males Tsar and Jamil, born in January 2021, were due to be transferred to Belgium in May after the Ukrainian authorities seized them from private owners who had mistreated them.

From Reuters • Mar. 9, 2022

In an interview with the pro-government Khmer Times newspaper, the owner denied allegations he had mistreated the lion.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2021

The Americus Sumter Observer, the county’s Black-owned newspaper, began to vilify the board’s white members, at one point publishing complaints about Dr. Busman, the former chairman, from a patient who claimed he had mistreated her.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2020

Not a word did she say of how she had mistreated him, and Solita answered her jocundly for that her lord had held his pledge with her.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)